[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27650] Line wrap in ICS mode

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #27650 (project xboard):

Unfortunately this is not true for every ICS (in particular not for the
open-source Lasker 2.2.3 code). Also, board that are part of a move list (with
non-standard opening position) seem to be more critical. I just had to patch
the code this mornning, because although I could play  game of Capablanca
Chess on ICS using WinBoard, I could not summon up the game afterwards with
the smoves command, because the board line was broken, and joined in a wrong
way, with a space too many. Some ICS remove the space at which they break the
line, but apparently others do leave it dangling at the end of the upper
line.

Solving it in the board parser is a bit difficult.

The true problem is that an xterm is really too primitive a device to make an
acceptable console. It does not even seem possible to edit the line you are
typing using arrow keys. I am not really an XBoard user, I am used to
WinBoard, and compared to that XBoard in ICS mode is truly appalling. The
long-term solution to this problem is therefore to crank up the quaity of the
ICS console to WinBoard level.

WinBoard 4.4.1 will have separate chat windows anyway. (Not available in
XBoard, though).

H.G. Muller


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